The city was founded by Akhenaten, a king who, along with his wife ... in his name with the title of the god that his father had hated: Tutankhamun. He abandoned Amarna and returned to the old ...

Ancient Egypt, one of the world’s oldest civilizations, is full of mysteries. From eerie Egyptian curses that make even the biggest skeptics feel uneasy to a bust that may or may not depict the ...

FatherAkhenaten KV55The identity of King Tut’s father has long been a mystery. One candidate is the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten, who abandoned the gods of the state to worship a single deity.

The youngest Pharaoh in Ancient Egyptian history who died at the age of just 18, King Tut is for many the most iconic name in all of Egypt after the very famous discovery of his tomb back in 1922 by ...

Scans of King Tut's burial chamber have revealed two ... Nefertiti was one of the wives of Tutankhamun's father, the Pharaoh Akhenaten. El-Damaty said it was too early to tell what the metal ...

Could another crypt as rich as King Tut's still lie buried in ... The tomb of Akhenaten, for instance, the heretic pharaoh (and father of Tut) who instigated radical changes in Egyptian religion ...

Tutankhamun, or King Tut as he is also known ... Tutankhamun became pharaoh after the death of his father Akhenaten. Some people liked how Akhenaten ruled but others didn't.

The boy king was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, and ruled between 1332 BC and 1323 BC. He was the son of Akhenaten and took to the throne at the age of nine or ten. When Tut became king ...